{"id":3858,"date":"2012-08-15T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:37:03","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-29-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-29-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, September 29, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 29, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840929-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 29, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840929-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 29, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840929-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 29, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840929-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">September 29, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Since I myself am not sure about the Perley<br \/>\nHunt poem, please tell Joey not to send it at all.<br \/>\nI will return to it, maybe later on.<\/p>\n<p>Joey <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> wierd [sic], but then that\u2019s why we love him.<\/p>\n<p>This Dartmouth job has been taking me away from<br \/>\nthe poems I wanted to finish, but today I attempt<br \/>\na return\u2026. I look forward to your testimonial banquet.<br \/>\nI will be taking Eberhart to it. See you there!<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0The testimonial banquet is a celebration of Don as New Hampshire\u2019s new poet laureate. Having met Richard Eberhart, the former poet laureate, at Dartmouth, I offered him a ride to the event&#8230;. In 1985, some months after my conversation in these excerpted letters, I returned to &#8220;Perley Hunt Walking,&#8221; retitling it, and writing it out as it needed to be, keeping Don&#8217;s earlier comments in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hunt-walking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hunt Walking<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3858\" data-postid=\"3858\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3858 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 29, 1984 Dear Don, Since I myself am not sure about the Perley Hunt poem, please tell Joey not to send it at all. I will return to it, maybe later on. Joey is wierd [sic], but then that\u2019s why we love him. This Dartmouth job has been taking me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11223,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}